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In October 1905, Lesya Ukrainka completed the dramatic poem «In the Catacombs», one of the most prominent anti-religious works of world literature.

«I burned too much as I wrote it, and its idea is too close to me,…», — the poetess wrote to A. Krymsky, to whom she dedicated this work. According to Lesya Ukrainka, the poem is «bursting into the world». However, the author was not sure whether the poem was destined to see the light of day. "I will not stop it, let it fly, — when the priests do not eat it, because it is on a religious and social theme, even …worse… than …Possessed….